Ferran Pérez
New Member
Hello,
I would like to be able to load a media file (e.g.: an image or video) by using a path relative to a certain folder instead of using an absolute path. For example, I would want to create a folder in say the obs studio profiles (or any folder that is normally installed at the same path for any user that has installed obs-studio in Windows) and add media to that folder (either directly or creating a new subfolder called, for example, 'Media'). I want to achieve this so I can reuse/share a set of created profiles and scene collections to other users by simply creating a zip file (including all media files used by the scenes) and telling them where to extract it so all media is correctly load it without needing to redefine the absolute paths.
Currently in OBS (last version 20.0.1), you can only browse your files and not manually introduce the path. However, I've tried browsing and typing a relative path to the current folder (e.g.: .\Images\example.png) to no avail. I've also tried with path inside the profiles and scenes folder in %appdata%\obs-studio but without success either (although the absolute path is correctly resolved, as expected). See figures for more details.
File location on browser:
View attachment upload_2017-9-14_11-20-37.png
On OBS:
View attachment upload_2017-9-14_11-21-22.png
I understand that this not working may be because of appdata being a hidden folder and its access being permitted only with obs-studio authorization (e.g.: to read profiles or scenes from the default folder). I've also tried defining the same folder with all the media inside some other path relative to some environment variable (e.g.: %APPDATA%, %PROGRAMDATA%,....) (http://www.askvg.com/list-of-environment-variables-in-windows-xp-vista-and-7/) to no avail.
Do any of you know if there is any workaround to achieve my goal with the current version of OBS studio? I though about defining a new environment variable of some kind but that would complicate the configuration for other people that may want to easily reuse profiles, scene collections and the media content in them as they would also need to create a new environment variable corresponding to the desired path.
If this option is still not available, I could always use a fixed pre-defined path and save all files and created profiles and scene collections there. I would propose this change to OBS-studio developers if many people want it.
Thank you very much in advance!
Ferran.
I would like to be able to load a media file (e.g.: an image or video) by using a path relative to a certain folder instead of using an absolute path. For example, I would want to create a folder in say the obs studio profiles (or any folder that is normally installed at the same path for any user that has installed obs-studio in Windows) and add media to that folder (either directly or creating a new subfolder called, for example, 'Media'). I want to achieve this so I can reuse/share a set of created profiles and scene collections to other users by simply creating a zip file (including all media files used by the scenes) and telling them where to extract it so all media is correctly load it without needing to redefine the absolute paths.
Currently in OBS (last version 20.0.1), you can only browse your files and not manually introduce the path. However, I've tried browsing and typing a relative path to the current folder (e.g.: .\Images\example.png) to no avail. I've also tried with path inside the profiles and scenes folder in %appdata%\obs-studio but without success either (although the absolute path is correctly resolved, as expected). See figures for more details.
File location on browser:
View attachment upload_2017-9-14_11-20-37.png
On OBS:
View attachment upload_2017-9-14_11-21-22.png
I understand that this not working may be because of appdata being a hidden folder and its access being permitted only with obs-studio authorization (e.g.: to read profiles or scenes from the default folder). I've also tried defining the same folder with all the media inside some other path relative to some environment variable (e.g.: %APPDATA%, %PROGRAMDATA%,....) (http://www.askvg.com/list-of-environment-variables-in-windows-xp-vista-and-7/) to no avail.
Do any of you know if there is any workaround to achieve my goal with the current version of OBS studio? I though about defining a new environment variable of some kind but that would complicate the configuration for other people that may want to easily reuse profiles, scene collections and the media content in them as they would also need to create a new environment variable corresponding to the desired path.
If this option is still not available, I could always use a fixed pre-defined path and save all files and created profiles and scene collections there. I would propose this change to OBS-studio developers if many people want it.
Thank you very much in advance!
Ferran.
